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President Trump and Russian President Putin will meet Friday in Anchorage, Alaska, marking their first encounter in six years amid ongoing Ukraine conflict.

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Alaska was Russian land before 1867, when the United States purchased the land after the nation was defeated in the Crimean War. But even when tsars controlled what was then the Russian Empire, none of its leaders ever set foot on the land Alaskans call home.